In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.

I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.

As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.

It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.

External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty!

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

The colonists had no library at their disposal; but the engineer was a book which was always at hand, always open at the page which one wanted, a book which answered all their questions, and which they often consulted.